Making MythTV manageable with LinHES 8.3

When I used mythtv I did use LinHES. As it made mythtv much more manageable even way back when. Over time I found both to be rather frustrating to use, especially at upgrade time. You were in a world of hurt because a new release meant new everything - OS, video drivers and mythtv. Just hard to do with a running system that people in the household depend on to just work.

So being a developer I wrote my own system. At least when things were broken or there is a bug I could hack on it myself. Not a C++ guy so hacking on mythtv really wasn't an option. It was a ton of work but also a lot of fun. Been running it for almost 5 years now. I think I have a grand total of one other user but it works fine for us. It's all open source but never got much interest from the outside world so I even took the web site down. Code just on github. It's called jflicks.

Currently I watch all video through an Apple TV using Airplay and an iOS app I wrote (which I haven't made public since no one really cares :). It's pretty sweet - just having a simple $69 (now) box at every TV instead of a HTPC client.